Monet: Water Lilies: The Complete Series - Hardcover

Rey, Jean Dominique; Rouart, Denis

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ISBN 10: 2080300768 ISBN 13: 9782080300768

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2008

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A complete catalog of 210 paintings from private and public collections analyzes the master artist's contributions to the Impressionist art form, in a volume that links Monet's childhood passion for nature and drawing to his subsequent achievements with light.

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Jean-Dominique Rey, art historian and writer, has curated numerous exhibitions and published several books, essays, and memoirs. Denis Rouart was an art historian and former curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy. He has contributed to numerous catalogs on impressionist painters.

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This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-featuring 210 paintings from private and public collections - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist's childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet's experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on water at different times of the day include paintings such as Impression, Sunrise ( 1872), which inspired the name of the impressionist movement. A critical text analyzes Monet's ingenuity, audacity, and modernity, as well as his influence on other artists, from Zao Wou-ki to Music to Shirley Goldfarb.This definitive catalog is completed by 210 color reproductions of the water lily paintings with annotated captions, period shots of Giverny by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, and rare documents including Monet's personal letters to his optometrist regarding his failing eyesight, which has been linked to his development of the impressionist style. The large-format volume features an eightpage gatefold of the murals at the Orangerie in Paris, and it serves as both an accessibl e introductory work and a complete reference guide to an important component in the history of art.

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• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2080300768
• ISBN 13: 9782080300768
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
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